Civil-service workers to stage demo Oct 19

Civil-service workers are to stage a demonstration in Rome Saturday October 19 demanding more resources for wages, healthcare, rights and jobs, unions said Tuesday.

‘Salary, health, rights, employment’ is the slogan of the national demonstration promoted by the public employment categories of CGIL and UIL in Piazza del Popolo at 10 o’clock, to demand the renewal of the contracts of all workers and ask for more resources for those very national contracts and for public healthcare “in order to guarantee universal and free care”.

Sector unions Fp-CGIL, UIL-Fpl and UIL-Pa said that the demonstration also intends to denounce “the increase in inequalities” with the government’s planned differentiated autonomy and to relaunch the proposal for a major, extraordinary Plan for Employment.

They said they expect over 10,000 people to take to the iconic Rome piazza.

Source: Ansa News Agency